#Garden tracker spreadsheet plus

Plus armed with my notes of last year’s garden I know what veggies didn’t do so well and which ones did. By rotating your crops you can (hopefully) outwit those pesky bugs as well as soften the nutritional drain from your soils. I know it’s wise to rotate your vegetables to a different location each year since different plants use different amounts of soil nutrition and attract or repel different pests. But the other beds are mine to plant as I choose. There are some permanent beds in my garden such as the asparagus bed and the Concord grapevines. That helps me make sure I’m rotating my crops each year.Īt the bottom of my garden layout I also made a list of what variety seed I’m using and whether or not it’s heirloom. And I can compare by simply clicking another year’s tab and looking over what I planted where then. Using it I have past year’s garden plantings right at my fingertips. Of course you could also format something similar to what I’ve done on your own *Spreadsheet Software. (I’m not personally familiar with these products, just offering something to get your search started.) And I’ve heard good things about Clyde’s Garden Planner too. For your own garden you can use a *Garden Planner Notebook or maybe some sort of *Downloadable Garden Planner. Your garden layout will be different but this photo shows what mine looks like. NOTE: The photo above is an example of my own garden’s layout. Then I start plugging in my planting selections. Now each consecutive year I simply add another tab for the current year and copy/paste the garden layout to the current year’s tab. But it will save you lots of time in the future.

So if you’re also planning to use Excel to track your garden details and formatting a spreadsheet for your garden keep in mind that the time you put in now laying out your own garden’s layout will take some time initially. The first year that I decided to track my garden this way it took a little time initially to lay it all out. One of the biggest planting decision aids for me is a spreadsheet where I’ve formatted my own garden’s layout. Work smarter, not harder as RancherMan always says. But after we’ve planned for our must-haves, how do I decide what to plant to fill the remaining garden space? Tracking Planting Year-to-Year Occasionally we add watermelon and others.

We also typically plant at least a few cucumbers and cantaloupe. RancherMan & I love green beans and tomatoes, red potatoes and squash, jalapenos & onions so of course those things are a shoe-in for our garden. It doesn’t do much good to have a veggie plant take up valuable garden-area real estate all year if we eat it only in moderation. Of course the most important decision on what to plant in the garden is deciding what veggies we’d most like to eat. Now what seeds shall I get started for this year’s garden? Plant What You Like To Eat So I start with an indoor greenhouse to get a jump on things. But I still enjoying placing actual seedling plants in the ground each spring. But it seems spring just can’t come soon enough.īut how do I decide what goes in the garden each year? We’re located in Northeast Texas planting zone 8a so we enjoy a pretty long growing season. I’ve been spending time daydreaming about both warmer weather and what I’d like to plant in my vegetable garden. If you click and buy something I could receive a tiny commission.) Planning My Vegetable Garden But links preceded with * are affiliate links. ( Note: Some links in this post will take you to other related articles for further information. I’m quickly able to plan crop rotation, see what I planted and where last year, companion-planting notes, the 3 Sister’s Method and MORE! Are you starting your garden planning yet? My garden planning method each year is EASY! Come see how I decide what vegetables to plant each spring.